Sin Blaché is an author and musician. They have been writing horror and sci-fi stories all their life. Prophet is their first novel. Born in California, they live in the Northwest of Ireland and can be found obsessing over obscure folk instruments and playing too many video games.

Seán Ronayne is a Cork-born ornithologist, wildlife sound-recordist, author, and environmental activist. In 2021, he started to document the vocalisations of every Irish bird species. In spring 2024, Birdsong, a documentary about Seán’s recording project, was released to great acclaim. His first book Nature Boy, won Irish Biography of the Year last year.

Samantha Harvey is the author of the novels Orbital, The Wilderness, All is Song, Dear Thief and The Western Wind and a work of non-fiction, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping. Orbital was the winner of the Booker Prize 2024. She is a tutor on the MA course in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

Rupert Everett is an actor, writer and director. He has appeared in film and TV productions including Napoleon, My Policeman, Adult Material, The Serpent Queen, Funny Woman, An Ideal Husband and My Best Friend’s Wedding. On stage his work includes Another Country, The Vortex, Pygmalion, Amadeus and The Judas Kiss. His film of Oscar Wilde’s later years, The Happy Prince … Read More

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a professor of philosophy and novelist. She is the author of ten books, of both fiction and non-fiction. Her last novel was 36 Arguments for the Existence of God:A Work of Fiction, and her last non-fiction book was Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away. Her new book, The Mattering Instinct, will be published … Read More

Merlin Sheldrake is a fungal ecologist and author of Entangled Life, a million-copy New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize. He is currently a research associate of the University of Oxford and the VU Amsterdam, the UK Policy Lead for the Fungi Foundation, a core member of the More-Than-Human Life Project, and … Read More

Sir Max Hastings is an author, journalist and broadcaster whose work has appeared in every British national newspaper. He was editor, then editor-in-chief, of The Daily Telegraph from 1986-1995, and of the Evening Standard 1996-2002. He has received awards both for his books and journalism. He has written thirty-two books including Abyss, Operation Pedestal, Chastise, Vietnam, The Secret War, Catastrophe, … Read More

Margaret Drabble, DBE, novelist and critic, was born in Sheffield in 1939. She published her first novel, A Summer Bird-Cage, in 1963. This was followed by eighteen others. Her short stories, A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman, were published in 2011. She edited the Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985) and wrote biographies of Arnold Bennett (1974) … Read More

Maggie Armstrong’s debut, Old Romantics, was published by Tramp Press in 2024. It was shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and for the Kate O’Brien Award. Her fiction, essays and journalism have appeared in the Dublin Review, Stinging Fly, Banshee and in Paper Visual Arts’ latest film anthology, In the Good Seats, and in the … Read More

Leslie Cockburn has directed and produced dozens of documentaries, both long and short form, on subjects ranging from the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Somalia and Central America to the war between the cartels in Colombia, the uprisings in Haiti, the Italian mafia, the chaos of post Soviet Russia and the radical Islamists in Pakistan and Yemen. She covered the … Read More